Adonis

at the Chateau de Cheverny

Jean MONIER, “The Death of Adonis”
From the heights, Venus saw the lifeless body, lying in its own blood, she leapt down: Adonis has just been killed by a wild boar. The Metamorphoses, Book X, verse 721.

There is a little text at the origin of this representation of The Death of Adonis painted by Jean Monier during the 's and exposed on the second storey of the Château de Cheverny.

It has been written by a latin writter that lived during the roman empire, Ovid, and is part of Book X of his most famous work, The Metamorphoses.

It tells the tragic end of Adonis, lover of Venus.

Here it is below.